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Agatha Cristie

  • Agatha Christie was born

    Agatha Christie was born
    Agatha Christie, in full Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, née Miller, (born September 15, 1890, Torquay, Devon. https://www.agathachristie.com/
  • Childhood

     Childhood
    The daughter of an American father and a British mother, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born at Torquay in the United Kingdom on September 15, 1890. Her family was comfortable, although not wealthy. She was educated at home, with later studies in Paris, France. Christie taught herself to read at five years old. She grew up in a family environment full of stories—from the dramatic, suspenseful tales her mother told her at bedtime to her elder sister's frightening creations.
  • Personality

    Personality
    She was a realist yet a romantic. She was a conservative, yet pushed boundaries far beyond the status quo. She, at times, displayed her gregariousness; in other moments, she was quite reserved. She found life at its most vibrant in the most ordinary and orderly things.
  • Career

    Career
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), she introduced one of her two best-known detectives, Hercule Poirot. Poirot's character also makes clear Christie's debt to the mystery writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), the creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.Christie's success as an author of sleuth stories has earned her titles like the "Queen of Crime" . Christie can also be considered a queen of all publishing genres as she is one of the top-selling authors.
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  • Who Was Agatha Christie?

    Who Was Agatha Christie?
    Best-selling author Agatha Christie published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, and went on to become one of the most famous writers in history, with mysteries like Murder at the Vicarage, Partners in Crime and Sad Cypress. She sold billions of copies of her work and was also a noted playwright and romance.
  • Cast of Characters

    Cast of Characters
    stCa of Characters
    Poirot and Marple are Christie's most well-known detectives, with the two featured in dozens of novels and short stories. Poirot made the most appearances in Christie's work in titles that included Ackroyd, The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) and Death in the Clouds (1935). Miss Marple has been featured in books like The Moving Finger (1942) and A Pocket Full of Rye (1953), and been played on screen by actresses like Angela Lansbury.
  • Break down

    Break down
    Agatha Christie never spoke about the missing eleven days of her life and over the years there has been much speculation about what really happened between 3 and 14 December 1926. Her husband said that she'd suffered a total memory loss as a result of the car crash.
  • Agatha's marriage

    Agatha's marriage
    In 1914 Agatha married Archibald Christie, an officer in the military. Together they had one child, named Rosalind, in 1919. The couple divorced in 1928. Agatha married her second husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, in 1930.
  • Death

     Death
    Christie died peacefully on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her home at Winterbrook House.